Well it has happened, SteamOS has arrived in beta form for all you tinkers to mess about with and tell us how awesome it is.

Depression Quest is an award-winning interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.

Teslagrad is a puzzle platformer with action elements, where magnetism and other electromagnetic powers are the key to go throughout the game, and thereby discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower.

Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

Interesting news is that Double Fine has announced Hack 'N' Slash a formerly Windows-only Amnesia Fortnight prototype game that is now being made into a full game.

Fight against increasingly difficult waves of Progeny attackers. Experience a variety of unique weaponry, upgrades and combinations that will result in a different gaming experience each time you play.

It came from space, and ate our brains is a top down shooter with horde survival gameplay. The brain slurping aliens are only vulnerable to bullets. Using your flashlight, guns, and special powers help the player to take care of the unwanted pink guests. Triangle Studios focused on creating a unique atmospheric setting and addicting, straightforward gameplay.

You are in a seemingly endless campus of office buildings. Your goal is to eat furniture and not get caught. What is going on? Not The Robots is a Roguelike Stealth Furniture Eating Simulator. Explore procedurally generated office buildings. Hide behind furniture. Eat the furniture. Get away without being caught.

The only aim in Rust is to survive. To do this you will need to overcome struggles such as hunger, thirst and cold. Build a fire. Build a shelter. Kill animals for meat. Protect yourself from other players. Create alliances with other players and together form a town. Whatever it takes to survive.

The technical director over at Phoenix Online Studios has confirmed that Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition will not come to Linux.

It has just been announced that the lucky 300 testers will be sent their beta test Steam Machines & Controller on the 13th of December.

Delver is a first person action roguelike dungeon crawl with crunchy pixels. Take the role of an adventurer that tries their fate in the dark dungeons (and probably dies horribly). Fight monsters, grab loot, hoard potions, and level up!

ToE2 is a real time strategy and puzzle game with deep city building and match-3/tower defense combat. Lead your kingdom to glory! The good news is it has already been funded!

Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale, inspired by Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

Goscurry is a small, hard game, developed by Daniele Giardini with beats by Isak J Martinsson, where you must relax and follow the rhythm (except for speedfreak modes, where things go crazy). Try to go as far as you can by piloting a ship on an infinite road, suspended over a stylized and eerie landscape, while taking sharp corners, evading hazards, and avoiding panic attacks. DON'T PANIC

Entropy is an open-universe science fiction MMO with a strong focus on freeform gameplay and large-scale space combat. Explore a hostile galaxy filled with over a hundred solar systems, each completely explorable, where you can hunt, trade, mine and salvage in order to survive.

Nimble Quest! Lead a conga line of heroes to glory against hordes of enemies across an endless number of stages. How many enemies can you defeat? Steer your unstoppable (seriously, you can’t stop) party as they cut a path of destruction through levels filled with different enemies and power-ups.

Particulars is a game with a unique combination of arcade-action and puzzle gameplay, set in the mysterious world of subatomic particles.

Shiden is a arcade style SHMUP (Shoot em up). Shiden takes influence from games like DoDonPachi, Cho Ren Sha 68k and Mars Matrix. In these styles of game the player is a single ship that must face thousands of enemies and dodge all of their bullets whilst causing as much carnage as possible.

After "accidentally" jumping your spaceship through a wormhole, you've crash landed onto this forsaken desert planet a billion kilometres from home.